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Thinking of going electric? What to know about EVs

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

More and more Americans are considering purchasing an electric vehicle. But consumers have questions. Is it really that much better for the environment? How do the tax incentives work? And how far can you get with having to recharge? NPR's business desk correspondent Camila Domonoske answers NPR listeners' burning questions. This episode is a collaboration with NPR's The Sunday Story.

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You're listening to Life Kit, from NPR.

0:27.0

I'm Aisha Roscoe, for Mary L. Segara.

0:33.4

Have you thought about getting an electric vehicle?

0:36.9

Lots of people have.

0:38.5

According to Auto Data Giant, JD Power,

0:41.6

EV consideration recently hit an all-time high.

0:46.2

And as EVs go from early adopters to the mainstream, as it's not just E.V.

0:51.6

Obsessives, but, you know, well just anybody looking at getting an

0:55.9

EV, people have lots of questions, including questions about the environmental footprint of

1:02.0

EVs to help them decide if they should get an

1:04.8

EV and then practical questions about charging and buying them to help them decide if they can

1:11.0

get an EV. Here at Life Kit we love nothing better than unpacking the how and the why of decisions like this.

1:19.0

So we've partnered with the folks from NPR's The Sunday Story.

1:23.7

We asked listeners to send in their questions about electric vehicles and the response was

1:28.8

overwhelming.

1:30.8

So to answer all these questions, I'll talk with NPR's business correspondent Camila

1:36.2

Dominozki who covers cars and energy. She's found answers for all these EV questions. for NPR and the following message come from Solgar, maker of Solgar cellular nutrition.

1:55.3

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